Quotes About Humility

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it all around the country, but it comes down to the same thing: this inherent mistrust of authority, and trying to topple people off a pedestal.

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

The people of Pennsylvania don't owe me a mansion with a chef and a gardener.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I'm fully aware of people's perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I'm just the guy from 'Police Academy.'

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

I'm not perfect. I make mistakes.

I'm centered in who I am, and I'm really grateful. I'm not perfect.